Sub-group topics
This is a sampling of topics covered at
or planned for sub-group meetings. It can be a repository for
exchanging ideas for meeting topics. Sub-groups are invited to add
topics to the list, and GCG members could add topics to a
wish-list.
- Publishing your home page on the net
- Exploring the FamilySearch site
- Introduction to News groups
- Email, the basics
- Maps available on line
- Using mailing lists, Surname Lists, & Newsgroups
- Using the GCG BBS Index CD
- Scanning documents and OCR (Optical character
recognition)
- How to manage your (PC) computer
- Demonstrations of various genealogy programs
- Web browsers and search engines
- Using GEDCOM files and GEDCOM Viewers
- Introduction to Video Editing (making a genealogical video)
- Introduction to CD writers
- "Sources" and correct citation, with demonstrations.
- Photo touch-up.
- Non-genealogical databases: Excel, PC File, MS Access
- Using the 1881
census CDs
- Using the various Birth-Marriage-Death indexes available on the internet
- Personal family history web sites, anging from free-form personal sites to
large gedcom-generated sites
- Peter Macaulay Executive
Director of InternetNZ www.internetnz.net.nz, guardian of
the Internet for NZ
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